Lindsay Exhibition Food Booth

Lindsay Exhibition
September 21 – 25, 2011

St Paul's Food Booth at the Lindsay Exhibition 2011

Our 2011 food booth at the Exhibition was our most financially profitable ever! Our sale quantities were similar to last year on Wednesday and Thursday, much lower on the rainy Friday, and significantly higher on Saturday and Sunday. Also, our profit margin was 1% higher than last year. Your food booth committee is extremely appreciative of all volunteers who worked a total of 195 shifts or 780 hours. This dedicated work resulted in the sale of 2,080 hamburgers, 1,950 hot dogs and chilli dogs, 3,450 pounds of French fries (fries, fries & gravy, poutine), 600 bottles of pop, 4,032 cans of pop, and 1,032 bottles of water. Our church cook’s fare items (chilli, meat pies, muffins, butter tarts) were very popular again. This year the pizza was of good quality.

As I retire from my position as team leader, I express my heartfelt gratitude for the team captains for their dedication and their thoughtful input into this operation. Harold Stephenson for organizing set up and take down – Harold James for  getting the fryers going, general set up and liaising with Exhibition maintenance personnel – Bill Gosling for his fortitude after recent surgery as 10 a.m. shift captain (and Peter Payne for “pinch hitting” for Bill occasionally) – Harold Brown, 3 p.m. shift captain and “volunteer recruiter extraordinaire” – Bill Witham, 7 p.m. shift captain and finance manager – Paul Carpentier, food preparation manager, pricing advisor, quantity advisor.

Other significant contributors were Donna Johnson and Ann Armstrong in 7:30 tent preparation, Vicki Hawks in assisting Paul with 7:30 food preparation, Mal Hickson and Gerald Armstrong hauling with their trailers in set up and take down,

Lutie Anne Presley for lending and setting up and taking down her tent (which, regretfully, was damaged by the heavy rains on Friday), Dave Golding for lending and helping set up his canopy to protect customers from rain and sun, and Carmax Hyundai for lending us a van to transport groceries. This year we set-up the counter on Friday instead of Monday and that seemed to make the remaining set-up less hectic.

Again this year your food booth committee has assessed the  food booth operation as a successful, positive, invigorating experience.

Sincerely, Ray Thiel, Team Leader

Note to Ray:

Ray, on behalf of our parishioners, we thank you for your leadership, commitment and hard work in helping us promote an awareness of St. Paul’s Church in our community.  You helped us to make this once again a successful fundraising
project.